CHN News and Press, China Fund Inc. From 09/11/21

The focus in the US shifts from the labor market to pricing pressures. EU economic and financial affairs ministers are meeting in Slovenia. The meeting concludes on Saturday, September 11. The UK releases August unemployment claims and the unemployment rate on Tuesday. For f...

Nearly 11 million U.S. jobs available, new report shows. ECB announces slowdown in monthly bond purchases. Is the global economic recovery still on track? For further details see: A Worker's Market: U.S. Job Openings Hit All-Time High

China Fund (NYSE:CHN): Q3 Net Investment Income per share of $0.06 Total Net Assets of $329M Press Release For further details see: China Fund reports Q3 results

Consumer price inflation in China retreated again during August 2021, with a year-over-year change of just 0.8%. This was the lowest since March, the fourth straight month of decelerating price changes. Is the Delta variant that much worse for China and the global economy? Or has the ...

To date, 2021 has been as almost good as it gets for equity investors. Any slowdown in growth has yet to feed into consensus earnings forecasts which have continued to increase over the summer. Investors have few high-yielding alternatives for as long as real and nominal bond yiel...

The growth of trade between the U.S. and China flashed warning signs in July 2021. While U.S. exports to China showed year-over-year growth, the growth rate in the value of goods imported to the U.S. from China turned slightly negative for the first time since August 2020, suggesting ...

Despite the lowball jobs total on Friday, plenty of good news is buried in the small print, like massive revisions to the previous two months. In addition, Hurricane Ida may have suppressed reporting of August payroll data. There are some more clues in the ADP reported last Wednesday,...

USD finished last week on a soft note but steadied at the start of the week, edging higher against nearly all major currencies. The Australian and New Zealand dollars were the weakest, off about 0.3%. The JP Morgan Emerging Market Currency Index snapped a six-day rally, its longest in...

The first full week of September is jam-packed. The highlights include the ECB meeting and China's inflation. The Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of Canada also meet. The key issue is that the ECB boosted its bond-buying under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program. The un...

The August nonfarm payroll report showed the delta variant hit to the economy is just beginning. Next week is all about Fed speak. ECB meetings are about to get far more interesting. It is a quiet week for economic data, with Wednesday’s JOLTS job openings reading for July,...